People's Front for Democracy and Justice

The People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) is a big tent political party in Eritrea that was founded in 1994. The party was the successor of the Marxist-Leninist and nationalist Eritrean People's Liberation Front, but it abandoned leftist politics in favor of reppresenting all Eritrean nationalists, regardless of political orientations. The PFDJ was supportive of Isaias Afwerki's authoritarian rule, and it presided over a dictatorship that engaged in political repression against pro-democracy dissidents.